From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261685AbVGDNKd (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:10:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261668AbVGDNKd (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:10:33 -0400 Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.45]:7359 "EHLO mail-in-01.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261686AbVGDNJo (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:09:44 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert Subject: Re: FUSE merging? (2) To: Miklos Szeredi , frankvm@frankvm.com, miklos@szeredi.hu, frankvm@frankvm.com, akpm@osdl.org, aia21@cam.ac.uk, arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:09:29 +0200 References: <4ly7J-14H-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <4lRDA-4U-55@gated-at.bofh.it> <4lSJa-16Z-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <4m5ZG-2ok-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <4maPM-5XJ-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <4mcHV-7no-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <4mduc-7Zg-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <4mfcJ-UT-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <4mitV-3mL-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <4mv7Q-2Ki-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <4mwdG-3AP-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <4mwwX-3N9-9@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Miklos Szeredi wrote: > I see your point. But then this is really not a security issue, but > an "are you sure you want to format C:" style protection for the > user's own sake. Adding a mount option (checked by the library) for > this would be fine. E.g. with "mount_nonempty" it would not refuse to > mount on a non-leaf dir, and README would document, that using this > option might cause trouble. Otherwise the mount would be refused with > a reference to the above option. IMO that should be a generic mount option, not FUSE specific. Maybe the default could vary for each fs, but I'd vote against that. -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.